EXCLUSIVE:Fox has snapped up life rights for the true crime project Narc, based on the actual story of an All-American college kid-turned-police informant. Zac Efron is attached to star as a student, frat president, and lacrosse team captain who’s busted for drugs intended for a party, then secretly turns narc and helps the cops bust criminals while carrying on his BMOC campus life. Efron’s manager and producing partner Jason Barrett will exec produce with Underground-repped Doug Banker. They’ve got a familiar friend in Fox exec Jason Young, who briefly departed the studio to help Efron establish Ninjas Runnin’ Wild in 2010 before returning as Fox’s VP of Production.

Grant Myers (The Maze Runner), a scribe from Fox writers program, will script Narc – described as a “college Donnie Brasco.” Julie and Rick Yorn are producing for LBI, and Matthew Reilly will co-produce. Narc joins a raft of Efron projects in the works which include Einstein Theory, Art Of The Steal, and the Snabba Cash remake, all set up at WB. Efron will next be seen in Open Road’s JFK drama Parklandand Treehouse Pictures’ Are We Officially Dating? He is repped by CAA and Alchemy Entertainment.

I admire Zac for doing The Paperboy. I’m still at the therapist after watching it though.

Proud Efron fan • on May 21, 2013 4:29 pm

This boy’s worked so hard for everything. I couldn’t be more any proud of him. He’s taking his career in the right way and is not taking it for granted. This Narc thing is one of the movie we’ll surely look forward from him. Hands down to Zac Efron.

St • on May 21, 2013 4:29 pm

Zac Efron choose wrong way for his career. He was some solid teen star. Then Twilight came and Pattinson stole all his teenage fans. And Zac decided to pull some sort of Leo Dicaprio and stopped doing teen movies. And chose to star in supporting roles in small movies that no one sees. That’s a career suicide. And he looks like nothing special in them. It’s not like he shows some huge acting talent in Paperboy or others. He basically looks like cute Zac Efron in them

He lost his teen fans but did not get new adult ones. He should have audition to play supporting roles in big movies. Maybe he would been lucky to get one. And then try to build career of his own. Because right now Zac Efron stars in small movies that no one sees and cares. And it’s not like this new one will be some box office hit or will get in awards season. It will quietly die in limited box-office.

Tony V • on May 21, 2013 4:29 pm

I disagree that Zefron’s career is being “mishandled”.

Efron became famous as an all singing/all dancing teen star. Right off the bat, that’s not going to secure him the admiration of the male driven film going public. In fact, it’s going to do the opposite.

Written off as a pretty boy starlet – he has progressively (and methodically) moved to step away from that image which is no easy feat. (Ask Leonardo).

He’s chosen films he knows won’t gross much of anything but that will help him grow as an actor (‘Me and Orson Welles” – “The Paperboy”) – only to follow those up with films that have a shot at box office success (‘The Lucky One” – “17 Again”.)

He’s doing just fine.

perry • on May 21, 2013 4:29 pm

i agree with u however zacs career HAS been mishandled.
although he appears to be doing well it is too slow of a process. every time he does a serious movie i get my hopes up and he doesnt get the attention from critics that i thought he would. like with paperboy and at any price. they said he is on his way but it is still missing something.

Vincent Hanna • on May 21, 2013 4:29 pm

Wrong to compare him with Leo…

DiCaprio was turning in performances like What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Romeo and Juliet, Total Eclipse, Marvin’s Room at that age.